EMPOWERED TEAMS ARE COMMITTED
No matter how a team gets empowered, they are usually strongly committed to something. This commitment is especially important for cross-functional teams, where members come from various functional areas, each with their own set of goals and priorities. Most new product and project teams are cross-functional.
In these situations, members need to put aside these often competing priorities and get behind an overarching goal or consuming challenge. It really doesn't matter what team members rally around. It can even be what some might see as a negative goal such as removing the bugs in an existing product, beating the competition to the market, or changing the negative image of the organization.
Rarely will teams ...
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